The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-11
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

master at Morgan Center,
COLONEL WALKER of the interstate rail-
way commission is reported quite sick.
THOMAS Moon has been arrested at Bel
lows Falls for stealing baggage from rail
roads.
REV. e. J. RANsLow of Wells River will
deliver the address in Bakersfield on Memo
rial day.
N. f. BATES, a Chester farmer, was seri-
ously injured in carriage accident on
Saturday.
REV. GEORGE ODER has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the Baptist church
at Grafton.
THE Congregational society in Benson
has voted to give Rev. Mr.. Waldron a call
at q salary of 5000.
Hon. JOEL G.. BAKER will deliver the
Memorial day address at Dorset and Hon.
w. G. Dunton at Weybridge.
A. II. HALL of Island Pond has purchased
an interest in a fine Patchen and Hamble-
tonan stallion. The reported price is "a, 900.
REV Mr.. CARR of Fall River, Mass, has
accepted the call from the Baptist church
in Windsor and will enter upon his duties
May 10.
GEORGE e. HOWE, for many years master
mechanic of the st. Johnsbury & Lake
Champlain railroad, died in st. Johnsbury
Saturday.
ARBoR DAY seems to have been observed
to a greater or less extent in accordance
with the spirit of Governor Ormsbees
proclamation.
A. JOHNSON, a Swede, in the employ of the
Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, was
robbed of S35 in cash by a fellow-workman
named Frank Nelson.
THE first soldier received at the Vermont
Soldiers Home at Bennington was Reuben
S. Phillips of Readsboro, who enlisted in
Company f. Seventeenth Vermont.
Sol. STORY, Jr, who has been in the
custom-house in st. Adams, has accepted a
position as accountant for the Baldwin
Manufacturing Company of Burlington.
JOSEPH BLANCHARp, Cornelius Hayes,
Thomas Hayes and Edward Amell have
been arrested at Burlington for dastardly
assault on married lady near Winooski.
Mr.. j. j. r. RANDALL of Rutland, who suf-
fered paralytic attack throughout his right
side April 26, has been slowly improving for
several days past and is able to sit up little.
Hon. IRA HILL. the Oldest person in Isle
La Motte who will be ninety-four years of
age next August, is still hale and hearty.
walks without a cane and reads without
glasses.
CHARLES SMITH of Peru, aged about
twenty-one, was so seriously injured while at
work at a saw in a mill at Peru, last week
Wednesday, that he lived but few hours
He was unmarried.
payers to return the value of diamonds
owned in their families. 1t is said that
there are $4,000 worth of the precious
stones in the village.
w. n. KINNE, late of the Foster House,
Waterloo, p. c., and Mr.. Dan Danforth.
conductor of the Central Vermont have
formed a partnership and have leased the
Albion Hotel, Montreal.
MAIL AGENT WILLIAM TRACY of the St.
Adams and Richford run is to be trans
ferred to the Brattleboro and Springfield
short run. He will be succeeded by j..
Sheridan of Burlington.
RUTLANDs first market-day last week,
under the auspices of the Business Mems
Association, was a gratifying success. Good
weather, good attendance and good prices
combined to make the event satisfactory
A WESTERN wholesale marble dealer last
week made the largest purchase of blocks
and sawed marble ever copsummated in
Vermont from a number of companies.
1t amounted in all to seventy-five carloads
Mrs. DANIELS, wife of Captain Daniels of
the steamer " Water Lily" of Burlington,
who has just been licensed as pilot of that
steamer, is believed to be the only female
pilot in the country. She is forty-two years
old.
THE mail-carrier from Wilmington to
Woodford as late as last week Thursday
was bringing the mail from the east on his
back, as there was so much snow in the
Searsburg road that it was impossible to
drive over it.
DUBUC & Co., who built the French Catho.
lie church in st. Adams, have contracted to
build a Catholic church at St. Johnsbury
costing, complete, $4,000, and have also
the contract to build the new Baptist church
at Georgia Plain.
THE immense boom of the Connection
River Lumber Company at McIndoe's Falls
broke Friday, and almost the entire produce
of their last winters work escaped dowr
the river, the number of logs lost being es
timated at 100000.
AN association has been formed in Swan
ton, called the Swanton Board of Trade, tn,
object of which is to promote the business
interests of the town. K. p. Adams il
president, f. Smith vice-president, 7. NJ
Tobin secretary and b. b. Blake treasurer.
THE Lake Champlain sea-serpent has APP
peared thus early, according to a CORE
spondent of the Troy Times, who saw tn
monster off Willsboro. The animal is an
parently in good health and spirits anC
promises to make it lively for fishermen
and tourists.
JUDGE WHEELER OF the United State
court has denied o. A. Burtons petition t
reopen the case of Receiver Writers agains
him for the purpose of getting in new test
mony; so the case stands as it was, with
judgment against Burton and Albert Sowle
to the tune of $50, 600.
A. L. DENMoREs steam-mill at Bridge
water Corners was totally destroyed by fir
early Friday morning, together with 5000
feet of hardwood lumber, several carload
of jiggered stuff and house and barn ad
joining. The fire is believed to be incendiary
The loss is $1,000; insurance $1,000
WILLIAM PETERS, twenty-three years
age, marble-worker at Center RUTLAND
while returning from work recently wa
startled by an approaching train and fe
from high railroad bridge, striking his hea
on pile of refuse marble below, causing
fracture of the skull, from which he died.
WILDER & Co., manufacturers of Woo
pulp at White River Junction, have su
pended operations for the present on a.
count of the action of the railroads under I'll
interstate commerce law. The Connecticu
River Lumber Company has done tn
same, so far as freightng by railroad is col
cerned.
NOAH G. FENToN, an old resident
Poultney, was at work on his farm driviI
horse, and having pitchfork in his han
he jabbed the animal with it, when
kicked, striking the tines of the fork an
driving the handle against Mr.. Fenton
stomach, injuring him internally so that |
died Monday.
A FRIsKY heifer plunged into the riv,
above the falls at Vergennes, and wei
down thirty-siX feet ledge at the daI
The great body Of water carried the amin
over in safety, and she was fished out of I'll
basin a wetter and wiser heifer. An India
is said to have gone over the falls and con